Comment OP appears to have drank the Epic Games Kool-aid.
The world’s biggest video game, Fortnite, is only available on Epic Games Store for most platforms. Epic’s market share is gigantic, other video game developers just don’t benefit of it because Epic promotes their own stuff first and foremost. If Epic had a storefront monopoly, it would be classified as anti-competitive behaviour.
Last I heard you could buy games from GOG or Epic and install them on a Steam deck produced and subsidized by Valve.
Or get them on PlayStation, Switch, or Xbox (Earth Walker claimed Steam has a monopoly on video game distribution in general).
they have a monopoly on video game distribution
People who claim that Valve has a monopoly on PC games are already wrong but you claim that they have a monopoly on video game distribution in general is outrageously false. The 2022 overall video game revenue was a bit over US$180Bn. The PC game revenue was US$45Bn. In 2023, all of Steam was responsible for US$8.6Bn in revenue. The biggest PC games (Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox) aren’t even on Steam and neither are any console or phone games.
Criticize Valve for actual things to criticize them for. Don’t spread misinformation.
Oder von den handelsüblichen Vorurteilen gegenüber Autofahrern aus dem Nachbarkreis.
Also dass BM / Bergheim / Bereifte Mörder scheiße Auto fahren, ist ja wohl Fakt und kein Vorurteil. 😈
Da hat ja selbst Friedrich Merz eine stärkere Brandmauer…
I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable
You mean like an alpha version?
I honestly respect the people going so far to buy the game just to badly review and then refund it. I just don’t buy games with such stupid crap (well, except Doom Eternal which I bought because I overlooked the rather small golden box and actually even forgot that I linked a Bethesda account years earlier for some freebie or whatever it was).
Hope they also disable their shitshow of a launcher.
Don’t expect too much from the inventor of always-online DRM in single player games.
Yeah, now idea how news sites and people claim this is somehow news.
Das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht will eine Unterwanderung von rechts vermeiden.
Ach, dann ist ja gut. Man stelle sich vor, die Partei wäre auf einmal gegen Ausländer und würde sich zum Bückstück für Faschisten machen…
I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices.
The research behind such tech will proliferate no matter ho invented it first. People will be hired by other companies, they’ll apply whatever they learned, using different techniques. Specific techniques can be patented, the experience people gained cannot.
Orion combines the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses
Ah yes, “the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses”:
There’s more hardware in a notebook than just the CPU. It’s pointless without network and GPU drivers, for example. Also the ARM DeviceTree stuff is BS.
Full fledged SteamOS desktop release when?
Maybe never. If I was at Valve, I would not want to open Pandora’s box of NVidia drivers.
This would make a lot of sense if valve plan on releasing new iteration of their handheld.
It makes more sense that for the immediate future this is for ARM Chromebooks. Steam for Chromebooks currently only works with x86 CPUs. For the longer term, all kinds of options open up because of this, of course.
I want to understand where the price justification is
The justification is that people should be yearly subscribers when they can more easily forget to cancel it.
SUPPORTED STEAM GAMES MEANS THEY’RE LOOKING AT ARM CHIP SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY TO SATISFY MY DESIRE TO PLAY 1 SPECIFIC GAME ON MY PHONE BECAUSE IT’S REALLY FUCKIN GOOD
In all seriousness, there is a decent chance that as a byproduct, Steam on “regular” ARM Linux will run as well, meaning even stuff like RaspberryPi and PinePhone.
x86 emulation on ARM is likely foremost about expanding Chromebook support as currently only x86 Chromebooks can use Steam. Android emulation is probably about getting Oculus/Quest games on the in-development stand-alone VR headset.
Nothing points to Steam games on mobile phones.
steam games on android?
No, Android games on SteamOS.
Better not tell anyone about DRM-free open source games on Steam then. Wouldn’t wanna burst anyone’s bubble.